Quotes about Obedience
“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
- Genesis 16:6
So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”
- Genesis 16:9
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
- Genesis 17:1
Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,
- Genesis 17:3
God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you.
- Genesis 17:9
You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
- Genesis 17:11
But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
- Genesis 17:14
On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.
- Genesis 17:23
So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,
- Genesis 17:24
And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.
- Genesis 17:27
Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
- Genesis 19:12
So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
- Genesis 19:14